Hey, Sunshine and anyone reading this! Feel free to ask here if you have any Wikipedia-specific questions. I'm somewhat credentialed and happy to answer.
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2025
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The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.
Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.
America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.
America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.
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I know Wikipedia is “open,” free, and all that but I wish there was a competitor that did not have it’s office in the US.
It is indeed open. All Wikipedia content is available under both CC BY-SA 4.0 and the GFDL and can therefore be used effectively however and wherever you like. Nearly all of its articles are freely editable by anyone anywhere provided they haven't previously been blocked or that the article isn't protected. Its entire history short of a few minor exceptions (pre-November 2001-ish, extreme vandalism/defamation, obvious copyright infringement, and deleted articles) is publicly available. Wikipedia by its nature is more open than most FOSS projects in the sense that few circumstances even exist where you'd need to ask a regular contributor to publish a change to the main branch on your behalf.
I don't understand why you use scare quotes around "open" here.
Fair point, I have read that stuff to I was interested in it when this whole thing kicked off. I am unsure as to why I quoted open, thank you for taking the time to point it out to me.
At one point in time I was even thinking of doing the whole download the English Wikipedia, and keeping it up to date for when the US revolution starts. That could be any day now I guess if I am going to do that I think I probably should soon.
If you ever want to, it's very easy to download.
Yes I would just have to decide which pi I was going to store it on and then set up the corn jobs to do all the up dating, I after some frustration I got my self hosted Nextcloud back running on my pi. Next I need to either get wireguard working again for whatever reason it kicked out on me, then I will want to get my backup pihole running. But then again the world is going to fall into chaos fairly soon like maybe this weekend?